Movie Love Quotes

[Tim travels back in time and meets Mary for the first time again]
Tim: I’m Tim.
Mary: I’m Mary.
Tim: I love your eyes.
Mary: Do you?
Tim: I love the rest of your face too, and I haven’t even looked further down. But I’m sure it’s all fantastic.

Mary: I hope I see you again.
Tim: You will. My whole life depends on it.

[to Tim]
Mary: I’m gonna go into the bedroom and put on my new pajamas. And then in a minute you can come in and take them off.

[after having sex the first time together]
Tim: I’m sure it’ll be better next time.
[Tim time travels again to the same night and has sex with Mary for the first time again]
Mary: Well done. Some people make a real mess of it the first time.
Tim: Amateurs.

Tim: Everyday up till yesterday I was lost.
Dad: Just like for everyone else.

Tim: We’re all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

Tim: And in the end I think I’ve learned the final lesson from my travels in time; and I’ve even gone one step further than my father did: The truth is I now don’t travel back at all, not even for the day, I just try to live every day as if I’ve deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life.

[to Celine]
Jesse: If I could change one thing about you it would be for you to stop trying to change me.

Celine: If we were meeting for the first time today on the train, would you start talking to me, would you ask me to get off the train with you?
Jesse: Of course.

Celine: If we were meeting for the first time today on a train, would you find me attractive?
Jesse: Of course.
Celine: No, but really, right now, as I am? Would you start talking to me? Would you ask me to get off the train with you?
Jesse: Well, I mean, you’re asking a theoretical question. What would my life situation be? Wouldn’t I be cheating on you?
Celine: Why can’t you just say yes?
Jesse: I did.
Celine: I wanted you to say something romantic and you blew it.

Jesse: I’m a time traveler.
Celine: Okay.
Jesse: No, I have a time machine in my room. I’ve come to save you, like I said I would.
Celine: Save me from what? From being blinded by the bullshit of life.
Jesse: It’s not bullshit. I assure you, that guy you vaguely remember, the sweet romantic one that you met on a train? That is me.
Celine: That’s you?
Jesse: Yeah.
Celine: Guess I didn’t recognize you. You look like shit.
Jesse: What can I say? I mean, it’s tough out there in time and space. You, on the other hand are even more beautiful than I remember.

Jesse: Know something? You’re just like the little girls and everybody else. You wanna live inside some fairy tale. I’m just trying to make things better. I tell you I love you, I tell you you’re beautiful, I tell you that your ass looks great when you’re eighty. I’m trying to make you laugh.
Celine: Okay.
Jesse: Alright, I put up with plenty of your shit. And if you think I’m just some dog who’s gonna keep coming back, you’re wrong. But if you want true love, then this is it. This is real life. It’s not perfect, but it’s real. And if you can’t see it, then you’re blind, all right, and I give up.

Jesse: I kind of see this all love as this, escape for two people who don’t know how to be alone. People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing, but if you think about it, there’s nothing more selfish.

Celine: When you talked earlier about after a few years how a couple would begin to hate each other by anticipating their reactions or getting tired of their mannerisms, I think it would be the opposite for me. I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone, the way he’s going to part his hair, which shirt he’s going to wear that day, knowing the exact story he’d tell in a given situation. I’m sure that’s when I know I’m really in love.

Celine: You know what I want?
Jesse: What?
Celine: To be kissed.
Jesse: Well I can do that.

Jesse: Listen, if somebody gave me the choice right now, of to never see you again or to marry you, alright, I would marry you, alright. And maybe that’s a lot of romantic bullshit, but people have gotten married for a lot less.
Celine: Actually, I think I had decided I wanted to sleep with you when we got off the train. But now that we’ve talked so much, I don’t know anymore. Why do I make everything so complicated?

Jesse: You know what’s the worst thing about somebody breaking up with you? It’s when you remember how little you thought about the people you broke up with and you realize that is how little they’re thinking of you. You know, you’d like to think you’re both in all this pain but they’re just like “Hey, I’m glad you’re gone”.

Jesse: I don’t know, I think that if I could just accept the fact that my life is supposed to be difficult. You know, that’s what to be expected, then I might not get so pissed-off about it and I’ll just be glad when something nice happens.

Celine: Maybe we should meet here in five years or something.
Jesse: All right, all right, five year… Five years! That’s a long time!
Celine: It’s awful! It’s like a sociological experiment!

Celine: I don’t think we should sleep together. I mean, I want to, but since we’re never gonna see each other again, it will make me feel bad. I’ll wonder who else you’re with. I’ll miss you. I know. It’s not very adult. Maybe it’s a female thing. I can’t help it.
Jesse: Let’s see each other again.

Celine: Memory is a wonderful thing if you don’t have to deal with the past.

Jesse: Oh, God, why didn’t we exchange phone numbers and stuff? Why didn’t we do that?
Celine: Because we were young and stupid.
Jesse: Do you think we still are?
Celine: I guess when you’re young, you just believe there’ll be many people with whom you’ll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.
Jesse: And you can screw it up, you know, misconnect.

Jesse: Life’s hard. It’s supposed to be. If we didn’t suffer, we’d never learn anything.

Celine: Even being alone it’s better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely.

Jesse: In the months leading up to my wedding, I was thinking about you all the time. I mean, even on my way there; I’m in the car, a buddy of mine is driving me downtown and I’m staring out the window, and I think I see you, not far from the church, right? Folding up an umbrella and walking into a deli on the corner of 13th and Broadway. And I thought I was going crazy, but now I think it probably was you.
Celine: I lived on 11th and Broadway.
Jesse: You see?

Celine: I see it in the people that do the real work, and what’s sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don’t have the ego and ambition to be a leader.

Jesse: You want to know why I wrote that stupid book?
Celine: Why?
Jesse: So that you might come to a reading in Paris and I could walk up to you and ask, “Where the fuck were you?”
Celine: No. You thought I’d be here today?
Jesse: I’m serious. I think I wrote it, in a way, to try to find you.
Celine: Okay, that’s…I know that’s not true, but that’s sweet of you to say.
Jesse: I think it is true.

Celine: The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?

Nick Vaughan: We love who we love. It sucks.

Brooke Dalton: How come one of the worst nights in my life can also be one of the best?

Harry: This is no perfect. There will always be struggle. You just need to choose who you want to struggle with.

Nick Vaughan: I guess I’ve got to be grown up. Got to be okay with not being okay, which completely sucks.

Dawson Cole: I made a mistake back then, and I wanted to save you from some of the pain.
Amanda Collier: I would have chosen you no matter what!

[to Amanda]
Dawson Cole: I lost you once, I’m not gonna lose you again.

[to Amanda]
Dawson Cole: You weren’t just someone I loved back then, you were…the very best of me.

[as they sit on the porch having dinner]
Amanda Collier: What? Why are you laughing?
Dawson Cole: I don’t know, I guess I just…I miss this. I miss you getting all mad at me.
Amanda Collier: I’m not mad.
Dawson Cole: Being a little pushy.
Amanda Collier: I’m not pushy.
Dawson Cole: You just care so much, Amanda. You just can’t help yourself.
[there’s a moment’s pause as Amanda looks at Dawson]
Amanda Collier: I should go.
Dawson Cole: What?
Amanda Collier: Because this is dangerous. We’ve had wine and somehow you have gotten better looking, which is so annoying. Couldn’t you have gotten bald or fat or something? Jeez!

Amanda Collier: A lot of things have changed since last I saw you, I don’t know what happened.
Dawson Cole: Life.

[to Amanda]
Dawson Cole: There was this explosion. I still have no idea why I didn’t drown. It’s like…fate. A chance to see you again, to tell you how much I still love you.

[Amanda visits Dawson in prison]
Younger Dawson: If this is the last time you’re gonna see me, what would you say?
Young Amanda: Please don’t do this.
[mouths the words]
Younger Dawson: I love you.
[he hangs up the phone and walks off]
Young Amanda: Wait, Dawson! Dawson!

Amanda Collier: [voice over] Someone once said it is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves, but I believe everything that happens, happens for a reason.

Dean: In my experience, the prettier a girl is, the more nuts she is, which makes you insane. You’re probably nutty coo-coo crazy.
Cindy: I like how you can compliment and insult somebody at the same time, in equal measure.

Francesca: You don’t understand. Don’t you see? Nobody understands. When a woman makes the choice to marry and have children, in one way her life begins, but in another way it stops. You build a life of details and you just..stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. You’re expected move on again, but you don’t even remember what it was that moved you, because nobody has asked in so long. Not even yourself. You never think…you never think love like this is going to happen to you.
Robert Kincaid: But now that you have it?
Francesca: Now, I want to keep it forever. I want to love you the way I do now, for the rest of my life. But if we leave, we lose it. And I can’t make an entire life disappear to start a new one. All I can do is try to hold onto to both of us, somewhere inside of me. You…you have to help me.

[just as he’s about to leave Francesca]
Robert Kincaid: I’ll only say this once. I’ve…I’ve never said it before. But this kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.

Francesca: [voice over] I realized love won’t obey our expectations. It’s mystery is pure and absolute. What Robert and I had, could not continue if we were together. What Richard and I shared would vanish if we were apart. But how I wanted to share this. How would our lives have changed if I had? Could anyone else have seen the beauty of it?

Robert Kincaid: I don’t want to need you, cause I can’t have you.

Francesca: [voice over] I had thoughts about him I hardly knew what to do with, and he read every one. Whatever I felt, whatever I wanted, he gave himself up to it. And in that moment everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

[to Francesca]
Robert Kincaid: When I think of why I make pictures, the reason that I can come up with just seems that I’ve been making my way here. It…it seems right now that all I’ve ever done in my life is making my way here to you.

Robert: The old dreams were good dreams; they didn’t work out, but glad I had them.

Bridget: It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

Jack Twist: Friend, that’s more words than you’ve spoke in the past two weeks.
Ennis Del Mar: Hell, that’s the most I’ve spoke in a year.

Ennis Del Mar: We can get together, once in a while, way the hell out in the middle of nowhere, but…
Jack Twist: Once in a while? Every four fuckin’ years?
Ennis Del Mar: If you can’t fix it, Jack, you gotta stand it.
Jack Twist: For how long?
Ennis Del Mar: For as long as we can ride it. There ain’t no reins on this one.

Jack Twist: Tell you what, we could have had a good life together! Fuckin’ real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn’t want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything’s built on that! That’s all we got, boy, fuckin’ all. So I hope you know that, even if you don’t never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on, and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you’ll kill me for needing somethin’ I don’t hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I’m not you, I can’t make it on a couple of high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.
Ennis Del Mar: [crying] Well, why don’t you? Why don’t you just let me be? It’s because of you Jack, that I’m like this! I’m nothin’, I’m nowhere. Get the fuck off me! I can’t stand being like this no more, Jack.

Joel: [voice over] Random thoughts for Valentine’s day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.

Clementine: Look, man, I’m telling you right off the bat I’m high maintenance. So I’m not gonna tip-toe around your marriage or whatever it is you got goin’ on there. If you wanna be with me, you’re with me.
Joel: Okay.

Clementine: You don’t tell me things, Joel. I’m an open book. I tell you everything…every damn embarrassing thing. You don’t trust me.
Joel: Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.
Clementine: I don’t do that. I want to know you. I don’t constantly talk! Jesus! People have to share things, Joel.
Joel: Mm-hmm.
Clementine: That’s what intimacy is. I’m really pissed that you said that to me!
Joel: I’m sorry…I just, my life isn’t that interesting.
Clementine: I want to read some of those journals you’re constantly scribbling in. What do you write in there if you don’t have any thoughts or passions or…love?

Clementine: You know me, I’m impulsive.
Joel: That’s what I love about you.

Joel: I don’t see anything I don’t like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will, and I’ll get bored with you and feel trapped, because that’s what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.

Joel: I can’t remember anything without you.
Clementine: Aw, that’s…very sweet, but try.

Clementine: I wish you’d stayed.
Joel: I wish I’d stayed, too. Now I wish I’d stayed. I wish I’d done a lot of things. I wish I’d…I wish I’d stayed, I do.

Joel: If only I could meet someone new. I guess my chances of that happening are somewhat diminished, seeing that I’m incapable of making eye contact with a woman I don’t know.

Joel: What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she’s a stranger.

[Scarlett pleads with Rhett as he is about to leave to join the Confederate Army]
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett! Please, don’t go! You can’t leave me! Please! I’ll never forgive you!
Rhett Butler: I’m not asking you to forgive me. I’ll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I’ll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There’s one thing I do know…and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we’re alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.
[Scarlett struggles to get out of his arms]
Scarlett: Don’t hold me like that!
[he holds her tighter]
Rhett Butler: Scarlett! Look at me! I’ve loved you more than I’ve ever loved any woman and I’ve waited for you longer than I’ve ever waited for any woman.
[he kisses her forehead and she turn her face away]
Scarlett: Let me alone!
[he forces her to look him in the eyes]
Rhett Butler: Here’s a soldier of the South who loves you, Scarlett. Wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me, you’re a woman sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett! Kiss me! Kiss me…once.
[he kisses her]

Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don’t say that. I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry for everything.
Rhett Butler: My darling, you’re such a child. You think that by saying, “I’m sorry,” all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett, where are you going?
Rhett Butler: I’m going back to Charleston, back where I belong.
Scarlett: Please, please take me with you!
Rhett Butler: No, I’m through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn’t something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I’m talking about?
Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you.
Rhett Butler: That’s your misfortune.
[he turns to walk down the stairs]
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett!
[Scarlett watches as Rhett walks to the door]
Scarlett: Rhett!
[she runs down the stairs after Rhett]
Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett!
[she catches him as he’s walking out the front door]
Scarlett: Rhett…if you go, where shall I go, what shall I do?
Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
[Rhett walks out the door and into the fog]

Nick Carraway: You can’t repeat the past.
Jay Gatsby: Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can.

Jay Gatsby: I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love…

Mia Hall: [voice over] People always say certain events will be the best day of your life, like your sweet sixteen or your prom. The best day of my life was one I never even saw coming.

Mia Hall: [voice over] You know how when you meet someone and they just already are the person they’re meant to be? That was Adam. Nobody outside of Portland had ever heard of his band, but he already was somebody. Me, not so much.

[to Mia]
Adam: You can’t hide in that rehearsal room forever. It’s too late, I see you.

Adam: I’m so crazy in love with you.
Mia Hall: Why me?
Adam: Because I like to watch you play. You go to another place, you get this crease in your forehead…right there.
[he places his thumb on her forehead]
Adam: And you’re beautiful.

Mia Hall: So how come you’ve never written a song for me?
Adam: I’m no good at writing about things that make me happy. If you wanna song you’re gonna have to like, cheat on me.
Mia Hall: What do I have to do for a whole album?
Adam: Come on don’t get greedy.

Mia Hall: If we weren’t musicians we could just go to college together.
Kat Hall: It’s very inconvenient to fall in love at your age, especially if it’s the real thing.

[to Mia]
Kat Hall: Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess. That’s the beauty of it too, you know?

Denny: Okay, this is painful to watch. Look, who knows what time the mail is gonna even be delivered today. Come on you gotta come with us.
Kat: Come on baby, pretty soon you’re gonna be going off to college no matter where you’re going. How many snow days are we gonna be able to spend together?
Mia Hall: Are you guys really using the guilt card right now?
Kat: We’ll let you pick the music.
Mia Hall: And bribery.
Denny: Honey, guilt and bribery are the glue that have held parents and teenagers together for generations. Don’t fight tradition.
Mia Hall: Fine.

[to Mia]
Adam: Promise me, no matter where you are and no matter where I am, we’re going to spend the next few years together.

Mia Hall: [voice over] Isn’t it amazing how life is one thing and then, in an instant it becomes something else? Like here I am, Mia, the girl who thinks about the cello and Adam and Juilliard. Then just like that…I could never exist again.

[whispering to Mia as she lies unconscious on the operating table]
Nurse Ramirez: Here’s the secret, baby. If you live, if you die, it’s all up to you.

Denny Hall: Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Mia Hall: [voice over] How am I supposed to decide this? How I can I possible stay without mom and dad? How can I leave without Teddy? Or Adam? This is too much, I don’t even understand how it all works. Why am I here in this state that I’m in or how do I get out of it if I wanted to? If I were to say I want to wake up would I wake up right now? But in spite of it, I believe it’s true. I heard the nurse’s words.
Nurse Ramirez: If you live, if you die, it’s all up to you. So whatever fight you got in you, you gotta pull it out now.
Mia Hall: [voice over] I am running the show. Everyone is waiting on me. I decide, I know that now. And that terrifies me more than anything else that’s happened today.

[to Mia]
Adam: I’m still here, and I’m crazy in love with you. Please, stay. I’ll do anything if you stay.

Older Henry Wheeler: [voice over] It was just the two of us after my father left. I don’t think losing my father broke my mother’s heart but rather losing love itself. Her hands started shaking beyond her control. Just leaving the house was difficult.

Older Henry Wheeler: [voice over] They were two people who couldn’t go out into the world, so they made a world with each other.

Frank: I can’t give you a family.
Adele: You already have.

Frank: I came to save you, Adele.

Cora Munro: What are you looking at, sir?
Hawkeye: I’m looking at you, miss.

Cora Munro: They’re going to hang you. Why didn’t you leave when you had the chance?
Hawkeye: Because what I’m interested in is right here.